Posts by earthvacation

I took the advise on another post and added a two-prong adapter to the three-pronger that plugs into the 110V receptacle. Noise problem disappeared completely.

My 8790 has now developed a bad problem with audio output noise from both the internal audio chip and my external, firewire M-audio box. The noise totally disappears when then the power adapter is unplugged from the laptop. The noise...

Well, some great news. I received my laptop back from Sager today and was pleasantly surprised. They honored my request to fix the problem generated during a DVD fix, even though it was out of warranty. They replaced the...

For the second time, I have had to send my 8790 to sager to fix a screen/case problem. The problem started when I returned the unit to have the DVD replaced (wasn't writing to +r media). They sent it back with a new DVD, but now the...

Here's what happened. I initially made a drive image of my current system using Drive Image 7.0 and duplicated that image on the second partition. For some reason, I got the "autochk.exe not found..." error and the system...

Finally, success!. I have accomplished my goal of creating a separate music -only winXP partition. It is awsome! This laptop is great for music production. I use Sonar 4 Producer with a motu 828 MKII, Echo Indigo I/O. whew!

I am running DriveImage 7 which occasionally needs to boot into DOS in order to rewrite a disk image. When it checks for network cards, it finds none. Is there a DOS version of the NIC drivers that are available (assuming this is the...

I did a reinstall and didn't use the promise ATA driver disk. I am running with the switches in ATA mode with two disk drives. I have been having difficulties in creating a dual boot WinXP config. and can't figure out why I am having...

Hi All. I have been trying, without success, to set up a dual boot setup with Windows XP. I'd appreciate any input that may help. Here's the deal: o partitioned my 1st drive in half o created a a valid Windows XP OS on the 1st...

my 8790 stopped burning +R after a while. I had to send it back to be replaced. Now it works fine again.....